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Dr. P.H. O’Hara has received from Bowling Green, Kentucky, a handsome bay mare, “Julia,’’ a thoroughbred Kentucky saddler, for the use of himself and sons. She is clean out and a dandy specimen of horseflesh. She is a sister of the famous Firefly, one of the best race horses that ever trod the track.

75 years ago — 1942

Miss Frances Weller, R.N., of Queens Hospital. Long Island, New York, returned to her duties following a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Weller of Cressona. She was accompanied to New York by her sister, Miss Wilma Weller, who will spend several days as her guest.

About 300 Pottsville retirees were nearly forced to go without their monthly Veterans Administration checks Monday after a mail mix-up in Reading sent them to Schuylkill Haven. It was the second case of a large bundle of mail being lost�within the last month. Because of a postal snafu, a bundle of mail containing income tax returns sat undelivered for several weeks. Monday’s mix-up was eventually corrected.

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